Senegal's remote mangrove villages escape cannabis crackdown Most Senegalese farmers sell peanuts and cotton, but in one hamlet deep in a mangrove swamp in the West African country's south, farmers have only one viable crop - cannabis. The village of Kouba is inaccessible by road and surrounded by river mangroves, meaning it has largely escaped a recent crackdown on cannabis cultivation. A NATURAL SOUND VERSION OF AN AFPTV REPORT